## PHONOGRAM TO A. I. RYKOV
AND DIRECTIVE TO THE SECRETARY

[29 January 1921]

Comrade Rykov. Would it not be better to consult now with the Chekists? Perhaps it would be possible to eliminate misunderstandings at once? Of course, unity is necessary, and I am certain that Trotsky will agree with this. It is necessary here and now to eliminate the split (or "tripling"), otherwise the commission threatens to fall apart. I am occupied in the Central Committee commission on the People's Commissariat of Education. Should we not turn to Stalin, Krestinsky, and Kamenev?

Lenin

Both phonograms sent to Stalin and Kamenev by telephone.

1 The document is written on the following phonogram from 29 January 1921:

"Comrades Lenin, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Stalin.

From our participation in the Ural Commission of the Council of Labor and Defense nothing comes. Trotsky travels in his train through Samara, Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg. Zinoviev in his—when is unknown, from Petrograd. They propose that we attach ourselves to some train and catch up. We do not expect to catch up by such a system, just as we do not expect that from such a journey in the absence of at least one conference to define the tasks, the composition of collaborators, an approximate determination of time, place and system of work (the Urals are not at all an unknown country) will result in results corresponding to the interests of the matter.

The Main Transport Commission wants to travel separately and again trouble all the Urals. We earnestly request our delegation (Syromolotov, Glavtop, Glavugol, Glavlescom, Main Transport Commission) to provide a special train, with an indication of where and when the Council of Labor and Defense commission will begin work, or permit us to refrain from participation in the work and release us and our representatives from responsibility.

Rykov, Lomov, Syromolotov, Bogdanov, Eismont."

The Ural Plenipotentiary Commission was created by a decision of the Council of Labor and Defense on 28 January 1921 "for the purpose of creating conditions on the Urals most favorable for metallurgical and fuel-extraction industry (from the standpoint of coordinated work of various institutions, housing accommodation, provision of food, transportation means, labor force, etc.)" (Central Party Archive at the Central Committee of the CPSU).

On the document there are notations by I. V. Stalin and L. B. Kamenev concerning the necessity of unity among the commission members and coordinated organization of the journey.

## 1921

## DIRECTIVE TO N. P. GORBUNOV

Comrade Gorbunov! Please give momentum to this matter.

30/1 1921

Lenin

1 The directive is written on the upper part of a letter from R. Chervinsky, chief of the General Department of Material Services of the Aleksandrovskaya (now Belorussian) Railway, to V. I. Lenin. Chervinsky wrote that in August 1918 he was transferred from service in Petrograd to Moscow. Given the urgency of the move, Chervinsky entrusted all his belongings to storage in a private Petrograd pawn shop. Despite possessing a receipt for the items deposited, he has been unable to obtain their return.

Finding himself in difficult circumstances, Chervinsky asked V. I. Lenin to render assistance.

On 1 February 1921, N. P. Gorbunov sent a letter to the presidium of the Petrograd Executive Committee and asked for acceleration of a decision on this matter, with the answer to be addressed directly to Chervinsky. At the same time Gorbunov informed Chervinsky that V. I. Lenin had received the petition and had given a directive to forward it to the presidium of the Petrograd Executive Committee.

## PERSONAL MEMBERSHIP CARD OF A MEMBER OF THE MOSCOW ORGANIZATION OF THE RCP
No. 224332/1977

[No later than January 1921]

1) District
2) Sector
3) Cell (its exact address)
4) Surname, name, and patronymic
5) Age
6) Family status
7) Nationality
8) Native language
9) Profession

Kremlin sub-district
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
50 years
married
Russian
literateur

## LENIN COLLECTION

10) Education
Higher
11) Enterprise or institution where you work
Council of People's Commissars
12) Its exact address and telephone number
Kremlin (Upper switchboard)
13) Home address
The same
14) Were you a member of another party, from what time and until what time
No
15) Which organization initially admitted you into the RCP and when

16) Who recommended you?

17) From which organization did you arrive in the Moscow organization and when

18) Number of your party card in the Moscow organization

19) What party duties do you currently carry
20) When did you complete military training and number of your registration certificate in the special purpose detachment

Signature

Printed from a blank filled out by V. I. Lenin

1 The personal membership card of a member of the Moscow organization of the RCP(b) and the Record Card (see the following document) were filled out by V. I. Lenin in connection with the introduction of a unified party card, which was carried out by decision of the Ninth Party Congress.

On 17 September 1920, V. I. Lenin filled out a questionnaire for the re-registration of members of the Moscow organization of the RCP(b) (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, vol. 41, pp. 465–468).

## RECORD CARD

[No later than January 1921]

Surname
Ulyanov (Lenin)
Name
Vladimir
Patronymic
Ilyich
Date of birth

Party card No. [527] 224332/1977*

* Party card number written in place of the crossed-out number "527."

## 1921

Date of entry into the party

Military education
None
Political preparation
2.
Profession now and formerly
formerly chiefly literateur
Current service
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Address of residence in Moscow and telephone number
Kremlin. Upper switchboard
Address of family and its composition
The same.
Wife, brother, sisters
Number of company and platoon
Number and type of weapon
In which cell do you hold membership
Kremlin sub-district

Printed from a blank filled out by V. I. Lenin

1 See the preceding document.

## NOTE TO V. V. KUYBYSHEV

[No earlier than January 1921]

Comrade Kuybyshev!

If you are part of this "quartet," a better speaker must be put forward. Khalatov always speaks intolerably and incomprehensibly to the point of impossibility. One cannot understand him.

1 V. V. Kuybyshev in 1920—plenipotentiary representative of the RSFSR with the Bukharan government; later—member of the presidium of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. From May 1921—member of the presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy and chief of the Main Electricity Administration. From April 1922—secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP(b).

2 What is being referred to is unknown.

3 A. B. Khalatov—in 1918–1923 member of the food department of the Moscow Soviet, commissar of the Moscow Regional Food Committee, member of the collegium of the People's Commissariat of Food of the RSFSR, chairman of the Council of People's Commissars commission on workers' supply.

## LENIN COLLECTION

## NOTE TO N. N. KRESTINSKY

Comrade Krestinsky! Today our commission (Preobrazhzensky, Tomsky, and I)2, which the Central Committee authorized, by unanimous vote, to decide in the name of the Central Committee, adopted a unanimous decision regarding the "second deputy."3

1/II [1921]

Lenin

1 The published document is written on a letter to the Central Committee of the RCP(b) from A. G. Goikhbarg, deputy chairman of the Small Council of People's Commissars. He reported that according to existing regulations the Small Council of People's Commissars could not confirm E. A. Litkens as assistant people's commissar of education (as had been proposed by a decision of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) from 8 December 1920), but deemed it possible to propose appointing him second deputy commissar. In connection with this, the Small Council of People's Commissars asked the Central Committee of the party to reconsider its decision.

See also the present collection, pp. 270–271.

2 This refers to the commission for the reorganization of the People's Commissariat of Education, created by a decision of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) from 26 January 1921.

## LETTER TO F. E. DZERZHINSKY*

17/III 1921

Comrade Dzerzhinsky

I earnestly request that you do not arrest without my knowledge Pyotr Semyonovich Osadchy; he should not be confused with Pavel Sergeyevich Osadchy—a Socialist-Revolutionary. The first has no relation whatsoever to the Socialist-Revolutionaries, for which Comrade Kryzhizhanovsky* absolutely vouches.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from a typewritten copy signed by V. I. Lenin

1 On the published document the following answer is written, transmitted by telephone from Petrograd: "Osadchy was arrested on the initiative of the district troika during the Kronstadt events. At present he has been released. His surname is not confused with the other Osadchy." Under the text of the answer there is a directive from the secretary of the chairman of the Cheka F. E. Dzerzhinsky, V. L. Gerson: "Inform Comrade Lenin." See also the present collection, pp. 288, 297.

G. M. Kryzhizhanovsky—chairman of the State Planning Commission of the RSFSR.

* Letters of similar content were sent the same day to the Petrograd Cheka and to G. E. Zinoviev.